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What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself?
— Gregory Maguire
She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear to her yet.
— Gregory Maguire
You know our Alice. She plays hide-and-seek but sometimes forgets to ask someone to look for her.
— Gregory Maguire
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
— Gregory Maguire
Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.
— Gregory Maguire
Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.
— Gregory Maguire
He had no other plans for the rest of his life. He followed her.
— Gregory Maguire
Now he was the minister and she the sinner, an arrangement she did not particularly enjoy.
— Gregory Maguire
What a world I've come up through, said Liir to himself. Oh, what a world, what a world.
— Gregory Maguire
Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.
— Gregory Maguire
How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[ ... ]None of us breaks free.
— Gregory Maguire
I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
— Gregory Maguire
All green things brown.
— Gregory Maguire
How she wanted to put away adult things and go back to seeing through a looking-glass, darkly.
— Gregory Maguire
So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
— Gregory Maguire
Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
— Gregory Maguire
How truly novel. The emotional life of furniture. I never.
— Gregory Maguire
Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it?
— Gregory Maguire
I never talk about the end game." He winked at her. "I've lived so long without death that I've stopped believing in it.
— Gregory Maguire
Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way.
— Gregory Maguire
As a young actor, it's important to see how the greatest in the industry work ... diva behavior is never it.
— Sean Maguire
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
— Gregory Maguire
Though who knows the architecture of the mind, and whether the arches that open upon discrete episodes are ordered in any way sequentialy?
— Gregory Maguire
That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.
— Gregory Maguire
Is that, in the end - that capacity to hurt - the most essential ingredient for a ruler?
— Gregory Maguire
Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.
— Gregory Maguire
You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle.
— Gregory Maguire
The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
— Gregory Maguire
The world pauses for royalty and deformity alike, and sometimes one can't tell the difference.
— Gregory Maguire
I believe in a higher force that is within me.
— Tobey Maguire
He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there.
— Gregory Maguire
I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
— Gregory Maguire
Perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
— Gregory Maguire
Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
— Gregory Maguire
You confuse not speaking with not listening.
— Gregory Maguire
The reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.
— Gregory Maguire
Don't tell Mummy,' he said, giving me a slight shake. 'This is our secret, Antoinette, do you hear me?
— Toni Maguire
There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.
— Gregory Maguire
I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
— Gregory Maguire
Where shall I say you've gone?" She threw an arm about airily. "Oh, way up high. Over the rainbow somewhere, I guess. — Gregory Maguire
In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.
— Gregory Maguire
When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil, and maybe splits apart and multiplies.
— Gregory Maguire
How could anyone live without flying?
— Gregory Maguire
Given a long enough time, of course, a wide enough frame, there is nothing said or done, ever, that isn't ironic in the end.
— Gregory Maguire
Sometimes I think that vengeance is habit forming too. A stiffness of the attitude.
— Gregory Maguire
She looked as if she'd swallowed an assortment of her own hangnails.
— Gregory Maguire
I know this: The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness, she said.
— Gregory Maguire
Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad.
— Gregory Maguire
And there the wicked old witch stayed for a good long time ... And did she ever come out? ... Not yet.
— Gregory Maguire
Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
— Gregory Maguire
At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.
— Gregory Maguire
It's over the garden wall and we're going to see the Wizard, come what may and hell to pay.-Elphaba — Gregory Maguire
It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
— Gregory Maguire
I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.
— Gregory Maguire
So young, he knew nothing about aerodynamics, except how the heart could lift and lift.
— Gregory Maguire
She claims they give her moral virtue too, but then she has buckets more of that than she needs.
— Gregory Maguire
She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
— Gregory Maguire
To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
— Gregory Maguire
Noon is a disguise of whiteness put on by the eternal Night behind it.
— Gregory Maguire
You can't be said to have properly established yourself in a place until you have been seen there.
— Gregory Maguire
Liir held Chistery in his lap and sobbed into his scalp. Chistery said, "Well, we'll wail while woe'll wheel," and he cried along with Liir.
— Gregory Maguire
Whimsy is fate, too: just less knowable.
— Gregory Maguire
My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee.
— Gregory Maguire
You charming idiot.
— Gregory Maguire
Frex had a notion that she wasn't sorry to see him go off from time to time, so that she could be glad to see him come back.
— Gregory Maguire
Notice, notice; let noticing take the place of screaming.
— Gregory Maguire
She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she ...
— Gregory Maguire
Such silly things, children - and so embarrassing - because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something.
— Gregory Maguire
You give me dyspepsia, Avaric. You and the beans we had at lunch.
— Gregory Maguire
Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
— Gregory Maguire
It's heaven to know that it's still possible to run, though she doesn't know what she's running from.
— Gregory Maguire
When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.
— Gregory Maguire
Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.
— Gregory Maguire
You lost your copper as well as your faith in wishes, and prayers.
— Gregory Maguire
Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish to hell he'd go away.
— Gregory Maguire
But there was the mirror in which I would glimpse his handsome form, because mirrors don't lie about men, only women.
— Gregory Maguire
Hens were wandering about like ladies at a lyceum tea trying to find their friends before selecting their seats.
— Gregory Maguire
They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
— Gregory Maguire
Good gracious, dear, all of life is a spell. You know that.
— Gregory Maguire
Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choicejust policy — Gregory Maguire
What more does one ask of life, really, but to stagger from moment to moment with a reason to wake and wait for the next reason to wake?
— Gregory Maguire
And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.
— Gregory Maguire
You can't criticize the size of a world.
— Gregory Maguire
Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.
— Gregory Maguire
Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them.
— Gregory Maguire
It never is the who, is it? It's always the why. -Elphaba
— Gregory Maguire
Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger— Gregory Maguire
I feel a little like Rod Tidwell from Jerry Maguire
— Kendrick Meek
No one is exempt from grief.
— Gregory Maguire
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.
— Gregory Maguire
history takes a long time to happen.
— Gregory Maguire
